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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with n

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

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God
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you cant prove that there arent any, so shouldnt we be agnostic with respect to fairies? – Richard Dawkins

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. – James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973

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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. – Taslima Nasrin

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. – Walter Pater

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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There is a fountain inside you. Don’t walk around with an empty bucket. – Rumi

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